Small to medium sized businesses are seen as being instrumental in driving the South Africa’s market economy and employment rates. With unemployment figures reaching 27.7 per cent last year and the economy forecasted to grow just under two per cent, the SME sector is viewed as their growth vehicle. According to Ravi Govender, Head of Small Enterprises at Standard Bank, on average about 50 per cent of all start-up businesses in South Africa fail within two years due to the inexperience of the owners, as well as a lack of resources to sustain. SMEs can come with inherent risk —…
Author: Charlie Proctor
Nursing offers more opportunities for career advancement than perhaps any other healthcare occupation. But so many opportunities create a lot of confusion. Students investigating nursing as a career, current nursing students, and even seasoned nurses struggle to understand the educational divide. And furthermore, how the educational divide effects important occupational benefits, like pay and scope of practice. To help all interested in learning more, we’ve organized each educational level and listed different options for furthering one’s nursing career. Licensed Practical Nurse Licensed practical nurses (LPNs) complete a 12-18-month educational program. LPNs work under the supervision of a registered nurse (RN),…
Bitcoin has been a huge topic of interest in the last couple of years. No matter how much people were paranoid about it in the beginning but with time people have accepted it with great warmth. No doubt it is the best thing that has happened to the people around the world. However, despite the popularity of Bitcoin, a lot of people have no idea about it and may even don’t know that something of that sort exists. People interested in trading Bitcoin, try to look here and there for more information. So, if you also belong to that herd…
If you are closely following Bitcoin, then you must have known by now about the turbulent journey of Bitcoin. Nobody believed in Bitcoin when it came to origin in 2009. To be honest, it was considered to be more of a scam, but as time passed there was a massive uprising in the value of Bitcoin. Today, it is one of the best forms of investment you can ask for. Not just traders, but now even big organizations like Microsoft, Dell, and Rolex like brands have started showing great interest in this cryptocurrency and have started accepting it as a…
The retail sector is competitive, and if you don’t deliver an experience that matches the expectations of your customer, there’s every chance you’ll lose out. If sales have stalled, or you’ve noticed that a growing number of people are either walking past or coming in and leaving empty-handed, now is the time to make changes. Here are some of the most common reasons your store might be turning shoppers off. Your window display Whether your store occupies a prime slice of real estate in the center of a packed mall, or you’re attempting to lure shoppers to a slightly quieter…
If you are able to encourage refuse, resource recovery and recycling in your business then you will soon find that it is easier than ever for you to reduce the amount of waste that you actually create. Measure your Business Waste It can be very difficult for you to reduce the amount of waste that you are producing if you are not actively tracking your waste. If you want to do a quick visual assessment, then you need to go around your business and look at all of the bins that are ready for collection. You also need to see…
What goes into making a business? First of all, you need an idea, then you need to be able to collect the resources necessary to make this idea grow, and finally, you need profit. It might seem like a simple order of events at first, but when you delve a little deeper into the general details, things can get a whole lot more complicated… A small business needs a lot of things to succeed, but when it comes down to throwing a general recipe together and seeing what floats out of the pot, some ingredients work every single time. And…
When you develop the need to change to new business premises, whether this is due to an increase in size or the addition of new features that require a different kind of space, it can be difficult to identify the perfect location for your organisation to thrive. Upgrading to a new location can either be of real benefit to your company or have an intense negative effect on the way that your staff are able to work, so it’s vital that you can make the right choice and find the ideal place for your workforce to thrive. If you’re on…
Looking to improve your business is all about the small things. But the one thing we can greatly overlook, primarily because people talk about it so much, is keeping a business secure. We all know the importance of keeping our business secure but a lot of companies tend to pay lip service to the idea by having the things in place that everybody else does. The most crucial thing for any individual business is to look at its own inherent weaknesses and find the best methods to protect it, inside and out. With this in mind, what are the best…
Most companies offer annual pay raises that keep up with inflation, increasing an employee’s salary by about 3%. But, if you want to go above and beyond for the employees in your business that deserve it, it’s important to know when you should give a raise. Do you have employees who have allowed your business to grow? How about workers who are always productive and motivated? Giving them what they deserve is crucial in order to maintain their good efforts. It’s also important to make sure you’re on par with what other companies are offering people in those positions, so…